Mark,
Help me out here. What exactly does standard lead fire assaying entail? To me, understanding ounces per ton and the implications of all that is no problem. However, when it comes to the testing processes, I would have needed to take a basic course in mining (which I never did of course) or a crash course here (hopefully it shouldn't take more than one post) to understand the very basics. Is the end product the actual precious metal freed from all the other earthly elements? If that is the case and that is what happened with the testing at Ledoux, that is, they were able to convert the complex ore into a simpler ore and then do a standard lead fire assay that resulted in extracted gold that could be weighed in order to come up with the opt, then I would think that there really should be no problem in certifying the results since you have the metal in hand. Is my thinking skewed somehow? I can understand why they would want to do it again and make sure an equivalent amount of gold is retrieved from the same dirt sample. That's why I've been emphasizing that it isn't necessarily an issue with COC, although as I pointed out in my previous post one can reasonably conclude that there is COC concern when they get the gold out but aren't willing to immediately affirm that it exists in the samples tested (by certifying the results). Your input, and anyone else's for that matter, would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, let's have it in layman's terms, after all I think most of us here are not that conversant with the mining terminology.
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